27 Aug
2008
27 Aug
'08
8:57 p.m.
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:53 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 8:12:42 PM, you wrote:
* I wonder why that name was chosen? The design doesn't seem to have anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it in Haskell too' monad.
s/it/exchange with external world, i.e., essentially, I/O/
Bald assertion. I don't buy it. What do IORefs have to do with exchange with the external world? jcc